You know that moment at school when the teacher told you to stop laughing but you couldn't stop and then when you managed to finally contain yourself, you looked at your friend and burst out laughing again? Yeah, that.

Well, viewers of Pointless will know that feeling all too well because during a recent instalment of the BBC quiz show, a contestant got Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice confused with science fiction novel Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – despite studying journalism at university.

Taking to Twitter, one viewer wrote: "They have Pride and Prejudice on the board and you go for totally the wrong one, are you kidding me?! #Pointless," while someone else said: "Literally pissed myself laughing at the journalism student that thought Zaphod Beeblebrox was in Pride and Prejudice #Pointless."

They have Pride and Prejudice on the board and you go for the totally wrong one, are you kidding me?! #pointless